Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3782-1

USN-3782-1: Liblouis vulnerabilities

Publication date

3 October 2018

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Liblouis.

Releases

18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

liblouis - Braille translation library - utilities

Details

Henri Salo discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-12085)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-17294)

Henri Salo discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-12085)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-17294)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	liblouis-bin – 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.3
18.04 bionic	liblouis14 – 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.3
16.04 xenial	liblouis-bin – 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.4
16.04 xenial	liblouis9 – 2.6.4-2ubuntu0.4
14.04 trusty	liblouis-bin – 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.5
14.04 trusty	liblouis2 – 2.5.3-2ubuntu1.5

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USN-3782-1: Liblouis vulnerabilities

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